Last Updated: 25-Jan-2022

Welcome to Edition #4 of the What’s New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we are announcing the following changes:

• Additional support for Dell VxRail
• Additional automation across solutions based on the PowerValidatedSolutions v1.3.0 release

Added Support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.0 / 4.3.1 on VxRail

Delighted to announce support for the following Validated Solutions running on Dell VxRail based systems in addition to vSAN Ready Nodes.

• Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation

Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates

Implementation

Added PowerValidatedSolutions automation to the following procedures:

• Create Alerts in vRealize Log Insight (Add-vRLIAlertVirtualMachine and Add-vRLIAlertDatacenter)

Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates

Implementation

Added PowerValidatedSolutions automation to the following procedures:

• Configure User Access in vRealize Operations Manager (Import-vROPSUserGroup)
• Configure Email Alert Plug-in Settings for vRealize Operations Manager (Add-vROPSAlertPluginEmail)
• Install the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution in vRealize Operations Manager (Enable-vROPSManagementPack)
• Rename the SDDC Health Adapters for the vRealize Operations Manager Analytics Cluster Nodes (Update-vROPSAdapterSddcHealth)
• Add SDDC Health Adapters for the vRealize Operations Manager Remote Collector Nodes (Add-vROPSAdapterSddcHealth)
• Activate the Ping Management Pack in vRealize Operations Manager (Register-vROPSManagementPack)
• Add Ping Adapters for the vRealize Operations Manager Nodes (Add-vROPSAdapterPing)
• Create Notifications in vRealize Operations Manager for VMware Cloud Foundation Issues (Import-vROPSNotification)

Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates

Implementation

Added PowerValidatedSolutions automation to the following procedures:

• Create a Virtual Machine and Template Folder and a Resource Pool for the vRealize Automation-Managed Workloads on the VI Workload Domain vCenter Server (Add-VMFolder and Add-ResourcePool)
• Configure the Organization Name for vRealize Automation (Update-vRAOrganizationDisplayName)
• Add Cloud Accounts for the VI Workload Domains to vRealize Automation (New-vRACloudAccount)
• Configure the Cloud Zones in vRealize Automation (Update-vRACloudAccountZone)
• Import the Trusted Certificates to vRealize Orchestrator (Add-vROTrustedCertificate)
• Restrict the vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator Service Accounts Access to Virtual Machine and Datastore Folders in the VI Workload Domain (Set-vCenterPermission)
• Configure Email Alerts in Service Broker (Add-vRANotification)
• Configure Service Account Permissions for the vRealize Automation to NSX-T Data Center Integration on the VI Workload Domain NSX Manager Cluster (Add-NsxtVidmRole)
• Add the VI Workload Domain vCenter Server to vRealize Orchestrator (Add-vROvCenterServer)
• Assign Organization and Service Roles to the vRealize Operations Manager Service Account in vRealize Automation (Add-vRAUser)
• Assign Organization and Service Roles to the Groups for vRealize Automation (Add-vRAGroup)

Developer Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates

Implementation

Updates to the following procedures based on PowerValidatedSolutions v1.3.0.

• Improvements to the pre-validation of the PowerShell procedure for Deploy a Supervisor Cluster for Developer Ready Infrastructure
• Updated the Replace the Supervisor Cluster Kubernetes API Endpoint Certificate for Developer Ready Infrastructure PowerShell procedure (Enable-SupervisorCluster)

Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates

Implementation

Added PowerValidatedSolutions automation to the following procedures:

• Create Anti-Affinity Rules for the Placeholder Virtual Machines in the Recovery VMware Cloud Foundation Instance (Add-AntiAffinityRule)
• Create Virtual Machine Groups and Restart Order in the Recovery VMware Cloud Foundation Instance (Add-ClusterGroup and Add-VmStartupRule)

General Availability of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.3.0

Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.3.0, which is a PowerShell module that we have developed to not only accelerate the implementation of Validated Solutions, but ensure consistency and robustness. Here’s a list of what’s changed (this and previous updates can be tracked by reading the CHANGELOG.md file stored in the Git Hub repository):

Fixed

• Fixed New-vRSLCMLockerLicense cmdlet where depending on the speed of the system the license would be added but POST_VALIDATION would fail.

Enhancements

• Enhanced all Identity and Access Management Solution cmdlets for better error handling and message output.
• Enhanced all vRealize Operations Manager cmdlets for better error handling and message output.
• Enhanced all vRealize Log Insight cmdlets for better error handling and message output.
• Enhanced all vRealize Automation cmdlets for better error handling and message output.
• Enhanced Set-vCenterPermission cmdlet to set permissions on non-nested folders.
• Enhanced Enable-SupervisorCluster cmdlet with better pre-validation.
• Renamed Add-NsxtVidmGroupRole cmdlet to Add-NsxtVidmRole, to add support for assigning both users and groups roles in NSX-T Data Center.

Additions

• Added Add-ResourcePool cmdlet to create a resource pool in the Workload Domain specified.
• Added Undo-ResourcePool cmdlet to remove a resource pool based on the Workload Domain specified.
• Added Update-vRAOrganizationDisplayName cmdlet to configure the Organization Display Name in vRealize Automation.
• Added Add-vROPSAdapterPing cmdlet to add a Ping Adapter to vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Enable-vROPSManagementPack cmdlet to upload and install the SDDC Health Management Pack to vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Update-vROPSAdapterSddcHealth cmdlet to rename the SDDC Health Adapters in vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Add-vROPSAdapterSddcHealth cmdlet to add SDDC Health Adapters for the Remote Collectors in vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Add-vROPSAlertPluginEmail cmdlet to add an Email Alert Plugin to vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Register-vROPSManagementPack cmdlet to activate / deactivate Native Management Packs in vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Import-vROPSUserGroup cmdlet to import a user group and assign access in vRealize Operations Manager
• Added Add-vROvCenterServer cmdlet to add a workload domain vCenter Server instance to the embedded vRealize Orchestrator.
• Added Remove-vROvCenterServer cmdlet to remove a workload domain vCenter Server instance from the embedded vRealize Orchestrator.
• Added Add-vROTrustedCertificate cmdlet to import a trusted certificate to the embedded vRealize Orchestrator using a PEM-encoded file.
• Added Import-vROPSNotification cmdlet to import notifications using comma separated value file to vRealize Operations Manager.
• Added Add-vRANotification cmdlet to configure the smtp notification settings in vRealize Automation.
• Added New-vRACloudAccount cmdlet to add Cloud Accounts for a Workload Domains vCenter Server and NSX Management Cluster in vRealize Automation.
• Added Undo-vRACloudAccount cmdlet to remove the Cloud Accounts for a Workload Domains vCenter Server and NSX Management Cluster in vRealize Automation.
• Added Update-vRACloudAccountZone cmdlet to update the configuration of the Cloud Account Zone for a Workload Domain in vRealize Automation.
• Added Add-vRAUser cmdlet to add an organization role and a service role to a user account in vRealize Automation.
• Added Undo-vRAUser cmdlet to remove an organization role and all service roles from a user account in vRealize Automation.
• Added Add-vRAGroup cmdlet to add an organization role and a service role to a group in vRealize Automation.
• Added Undo-vRAGroup cmdlet to remove an organization role and all service roles from a group account in vRealize Automation.
• Added Undo-IdentitySource cmdlet to remove an Identity Provider from vCenter Server.
• Added Undo-SddcManagerRole cmdlet to remove access for a user in SDDC Manager.
• Added Add-SsoUser cmdlet to add a Single Sign-On domain user.
• Added New-vRSLCMDatacenter cmdlet to add a datacenter in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
• Added Undo-vRSLCMDatacenter cmdlet to remove a datacenter from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
• Added New-vRSLCMDatacenterVcenter cmdlet to add a vCenter Server to a datacenter in vRealize Lifecycle Manager.
• Added Export-WSAJsonSpec cmdlet to generate the deployment JSON for Clustered Workspace ONE Access.
• Added New-WSADeployment cmdlet to trigger the deployment of Clustered Workspace ONE Access via vRealize Suite Lifecycle Maneger.
• Added Add-WorkspaceOneDirectoryConnector cmdlet to add a connector to the Identity Provider in Workspace ONE Access.
• Added Add-vRLIAlertDatacenter cmdlet to create vRealize Log Insight alerts by datacenter
• Added Add-vRLIAlertVirtualMachine cmdlet to create vRealize Log Insight alerts by virtual machine
• Added Undo-vRLIAlert cmdlet to remove alerts from vRealize Log Insight.
• Added Sample Notification Templates in the SampleNotifications folder:
  • vrli-vcf-datacenter.json defines the vRealize Log Insight alerts that should be configured for VMware Cloud Foundation at the datacenter level
  • vrli-vcf-vmVrslcm.json defines the vRealize Log Insight alerts that should be configured for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
• Added Sample Scripts in the SampleScripts\iom folder, each script uses the Planning and Preparation Workbook as the input source:
  • iomDeployVrealizeOperations.ps1 automates the install and config of vRealize Operations for Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation.
  • iomConfigureVrealizeOperations.ps1 automates the integration config of vRealize Operations for Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation.

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